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Wagner, Tristan & Me
Recently, I spent three nights in a row at Disney Hall in Downtown LA listening to The Tristan Project, a Gustavo Dudamel conducted LA Phil concert performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, as directed by Peter Sellars with video accompaniment by artist Bill Viola, as well as participation by the LA Master Chorale. The Tristan Project was first performed at Disney Hall with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting in 2004, subsequent productions have taken place in New York at the Met… -
Robert Longo's Art of The Now
There is an Ocean wave gathering strength, filled with ominous portent, set to come crashing before us. It began with Ferguson, but it's always been there, only now it's gained the weight and heft of a Death Star, a collection of all the AR-15 bullets fired in a year of mass shootings. It is Albrecht Durer's "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" come to life during the pandemic, with its resisters at the Women's March, at Gun Control protests, at… -
David Hockney's Beautiful World
"I know it's an unusual picture because there are not many made this way. I think it's what we need today. New looking fresh pictures of a very beautiful world." â David Hockney.Late November-Early December has gotten cold, damp, and grey in most places, even in our paradise of Santa Monica, and Venice, California. Fear not! Along comes David Hockney to cheer us up with his new exhibition 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures.This collection of 20 iPad drawings of… -
Works By Egon Schiele Restituted To The Heirs Of Fritz Grünbaum To Be Auctioned In New York City
Tonight in New York, Christie's will hold their 20th Century Evening Sale at Rockefeller Center.Among the works being offered for sale are two works on paper by Early 20th Century Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele, from the collection of Viennese film and cabaret star Fitz Grünbaum. Grünbaum was not unlike Joel Grey in Cabaret, famous for his biting comments as a Master of Ceremonies.And although this is not really for me to say, I hope the works sell for a… -
Inside The New Orange County Museum Of Art
In early October, I drove down to Costa Mesa, a drive of around an hour from Los Angeles (traffic dependent), for a preview of the newly opened Orange Country Museum of Art (OCMA).OCMA is located on the campus of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and is right off the 405 at Bristol Avenue. The striking 53,000 square foot building with 25,000 square feet of gallery space was designed by Thom Mayne and Brandon Welling of Morphosis, the Pritzker Prize… -
Dallas Contemporary Looks Backward Forward With Shepard Fairey
Although Shepard Fairey is a Los Angeles-based artist, and I am a Los Angeles-based journalist, last month I traveled to Dallas, Texas, to attend the Dallas Contemporary (DC) annual gala and to see backward forward, Fairey's exhibition of his new work, on view at DC through July 23, 2022 â all of which was very much worth the trip.Dallas Contemporary is housed in a renovated 37,000 square foot industrial building in the Dallas Design District.DC is a non-collecting art institution,… -
Shepard Fairey: Portrait Of The Artist
shepard fairey: backward forward at Dallas Contemporary in Dallas, Texas, through July 23, 2023, is an expansive solo show of Shepard Fairey's most recent work that speaks to his evolution as an artist. When I was in Dallas for the opening of the exhibit, I had the chance to sit down with Fairey to hear about his journey and current practice.Fairey's work sits at an interesting intersection of American Art, graphic design, advertising, social justice activism, and entrepreneurship.Throughou... View Original… -
The Timeless Shimmer Of Beatrice Wood
Sometimes a gallery show can remind you not just of an artist but of a rare personage.This is the case with Beatrice Wood: Drawings, Prints, Ceramics, which opened on September 21 at L.A. Louver in Venice, CA., and runs through October 29, 2022. I am sorry I didn"t get to this exhibition sooner, but it's worth seeing before it closes.Wood, who was called "the Mama of Dada", was born in 1893 and lived to 1998, when she was 105. She… -
Shantell Martin: Where The Line Takes You
"I always thought being an artist," Shantell Martin told me recently in her Los Angeles studio, "allowed you to do anything you want. It's a freedom to create whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want."That is certainly true for Martin whose life and career has never followed a straight line. Martin has found expression in a multiplicity of mediums, materials, venues, and in artistic collaborations and outlets all over the globe.Martin's work is improvised, a spontaneous black... View… -
Cy Twombly At The Getty: Where The Past Is Present
When we look at abstract art, we tend to see in it a spontaneous investigation of a self-made universe untethered from the past. We decipher the works by the emotion they produce, the feelings they conjure, the intelligence we imagine informing the patterns, lines, movement, motion, color, and negative space and how they all interact on the canvas. The sum total leads us to see a work as art and not merely decoration or, for that matter, child's play.Cy Twombly:… -
Shulamit Nazarian Los Angeles: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Shulamit Nazarian Los Angeles Gallery just celebrated its tenth anniversary, which in gallery years is a serious achievement and reason enough to visit with Shulamit Nazarian and her gallery partner Seth Curcio."The most meaningful part of what I do," Shulamit Nazarian told me recently, "is learning from my artists, opening these amazing windows to their narrative, their cultural history or personal history."For its anniversary, the gallery exhibited a group show of many new works made for ... View Original Article -
Take Me To Church
As a general rule, great or interesting art and exhibitions are not found in summer resorts, the art buying and appreciating public being transient, the season short, and the major galleries in urban art centers (New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong) being proprietary about their artists and their collectors. However, that may be changing as what were once one season destinations are becoming year-round bases for work-from-home.A case in point is Sag Harbor's new artist-focused ce... View Original…